BIO

BIO

In addition to being AVVO rated 8.3/10, Brian M. Rowland is BV rated by Martindale-Hubble Peer Review ratings (BV is the highest rating for an attorney with 10 or less years experience).

Brian Rowland is a Jacksonville native who received his law degree with honors in 2001 from Florida Coastal School of Law where he was first in the Summer ’01 class. He was a member of the Florida Coastal Law Review and founded the Law and Technology Society. Additional legal studies include European Union, Comparative Law and International Internet Law at the University of Vienna, in Austria. He also holds two undergraduate degrees from Florida State University: Mass Communication and Business Marketing.

Prior to admission to the Florida Bar, since 1983, Brian held management and ownership positions at various radio stations in North Florida and South Georgia and has also held positions as marketing manager and vice president of two Jacksonville-area software development firms.

REPRESENTATION PHILOSOPHY

Prosecution of a lawsuit often takes an immense personal toll on clients, and the process is expensive and slow. The firm has a legal representation philosophy which provides that, more often than not, litigation should be conducted as a last resort (unless circumstances such as non-payment after demand, tenant eviction, lien foreclosure, injunction, etc., demand).

Business litigation is often the result of poor initial documentation of corporate matters, lack of well-crafted agreements, or other preparation failures.  Very often it is the case that, if business partners (or contracting parties) planned and documented matters more adequately from the start, great expense and time would be saved if matters later go awry.  These preparation concerns apply to businesses of all sizes (two-person partnerships or 50/50 shareholder scenarios are often as complex and contentious as those in larger corporations).  As such, clients are urged of the need to establish a documentary foundation to help map out the rights and obligations of the parties to lessen the potential for litigation, or if litigious issues have already arisen, to negotiate and establish a document-based work-out for present matters.

This philosophy is reflected in virtually all of the firm’s work, whether in the drafting of documents or in the negotiation of terms of an agreement, license or settlement.

AFFILIATIONS, INTERESTS & HONORS

Member:  The State Bar of Georgia (Business and Real Estate Sections Member)

Member:  The Florida Bar (Business Law Section; Entertainment, Arts  and Sports Law Section, and Real Estate Law Section) and authorized to practice before United States District Court, Middle  District of Florida

Member:  Republican National Lawyers Association

Publisher: MediaFairness.com – an anti media bias blog

Author:  “Media  Fairness: Regulation, Diversity, Reality” published in Florida  Coastal Law Journal, Vol. III, 67

Author:  “An  Athlete’s Right of Publicity: The Parameters of Control” published  in 76-Nov Florida Bar Law Journal 45

Author:  “Minority  Preferences in F.C.C. Licensing”

Program Speaker:  “The Right of Publicity” seminar, 2002 Florida Bar Mid-Year Meeting, Miami, Florida.

Seminar Panelist:  Connexion Music Festival, 2004; Jacksonville Film  Festival – Entertainment Law Seminar, 2005 and 2007; Florida Coastal School of Law Entertainment Law Conference 2008; and University of Florida Music Law Conference, 2005 and 2008.

Former Director: “Riverside Fine Arts Association, Inc.”

Former Director:  Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida, Inc.

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